Robots that watch for social cues could feed people by gauging when they are ready for a mouthful. This may make it easier for people who can’t feed themselves, such as those with tetraplegia, to ...

For about 10 years, researchers at the University of Washington’s Personal Robotics Lab have been developing a robotic arm that can help people with motor impairments, such as quadriplegics, feed ...

Here’s a robot learning to flip pancakes. It’s hard not to laugh, watching this dumb bot flub flip after flip. But we won’t be laughing when we’re running for our lives, slowed down by a stomach full ...

Following the government shutdown which has now become the longest on record, The Hungry Robot, a pizzeria in Fairbanks, has ...

The meal-assisting robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Washington. The robot uses a specially developed object-detection algorithm termed RetinaNet. The algorithm enables the ...